Binotto needs help to run the Ferrari F1 team according Berger
Sep.29 - Ferrari needs to rethink its basic upper management structure if it wants to compete with Red Bull and Mercedes for titles.
This year, the Maranello team impressed early on with its highly competitive 2022 car - but the title challenge collapsed under the weight of reliability, pitstop and key strategic mistakes.
Berger, who had two separate tenures at Ferrari in the 80s and again in the 90s, thinks team boss Mattia Binotto has too much weight on his shoulders.
Gerhard Berger
"You need several shoulders on which the load is distributed," he told APA news agency, "like Red Bull with Helmut Marko, Christian Horner and Adrian Newey.
"It's the same with Mercedes," the 63-year-old, who is now boss of the DTM series, added. "It's an excellent team that I'm sure will be back in the fight for the championship next year.
"But with Ferrari, they stand in their own way," Berger insisted.
However, he is not among those who are calling for Binotto to step aside.
"Binotto is doing an excellent job," said Berger. "He made the car, which wasn't competitive very long ago, and the team into a super-fast, competitive team.
"He's a good leader, but he'll have to give up some areas of responsibility to good people."
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Curly needs to go.....now. Fast car, good drivers, and the team cannot perform. Sometimes the obvious answer is the correct one.
Give the guy a break
Team doing well but no praise to Binotto for this, only kick him when he's down
Difficult job at the best of times and shite talk doesn't help
Gerhard knows what's up and makes a good point of how Red Bull has three of the best F1 people running their program. Binotto is one man. He cannot be expected to be able to do the work of three men.
Gerhard is looking more and more like a cooler Peter Sauber every day, and lets not forget he owned 50% of AT
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